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This leaked video shows Microsoft's AI centric vision for a future OS. No native (legacy) Windows software. All web based, and all AI.
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Those increasingly buggy, not yet complete, Rust clones of the GNU CoreUtils? The ones Ubuntu ships? Microsoft is now officially maintaining them for Windows.
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Is Debian going the way of Ubuntu, dropping tested code in favor of untested Rust clones? It's looking that way.
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Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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Just saw this over on Level1!
So I asked myself: If I were designing an OS from scratch, how would I do it differently?
And so I designed and developed my own kernel and userspace, and the result is my experimental open-source system — LiberSystem :slight_smile:
A microkernel OS written in Rust, based on typed objects, capability-based security, isolated services/drivers, and explicit volumes instead of classic mount points.
I do not see it as a replacement for Linux, more as an experiment.
I would be interested to hear what you think: does this direction make sense to you, or is the Unix model still the best approach in your opinion?
More info about my project: libersystem dot com
Source code on GitHub: libersoft-org/libersystem
Apple loses gatekeeper ruling appeal in the EU. They are still classified as a gatekeeper in the EU for the way the IOS app store works.
Apple has lost its legal challenge against EU rules designating it as a gatekeeper under an EU law requiring some of the world’s largest technology companies to open their platforms to greater competition.The EU’s Luxembourg-based General Court said on July 8 that the EU was correct to classify Apple back in 2023 as a gatekeeper in relation to its App Store and iOS.Under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), companies designated as gatekeepers must follow rules intended to make digital markets more open and give rivals a fairer chance to compete. The court said the EU correctly treated Apple’s App Stores across different devices as a single core platform service.Well, we’ve done it.
We’ve answered the eternal question: “Which Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall would fill with names quicker? Emacs or Vim?”
The answer, it turns out, is “Vim”. And it takes just 8 days.
A hearty “Thank You” to everyone who supports The Lunduke Journal by getting Lifetime Subscriptions (massively discounted throughout July) and getting on these walls! You make all of this possible!
Now. How long will it take for Emacs to fill up (matching the same number of names as the Vim Wall)?
Well, right now the Emacs Wall is a hair over 2/3rds of the way full. So we’ll find out!
With the closing of the “Vim” Wall (and the BeOS Wall only having the space for 1 name left), now seemed like a good time to add a new retro computer wall: The NeXTStep 1.0 Wall.
Right now, there are 4 Walls available to add your name to (*cough* massive discount *cough*).
NeXTStep (just opened)
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Yesterday was the 4th of July.
As such, time that I normally would have spent writing up some thoughts on the Tech News of the Week (tm) was, instead, spent eating hamburgers, watching fireworks, and generally goofing off with my kids.
So allow me to briefly summarize my thoughts using as little effort as possible:
Rust is weird, Sony sucks, and America is awesome.
… Yup. That just about covers it.
I hope all of my fellow Americans had a truly splendid Independence Day.
Here are the major stories from the last week, with direct links to X and Substack.
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Git Takes Another Step Towards Making Rust Mandatory (X, Substack)
74 Million User Accounts Exposed in Breaches During June (X, Substack)
BCacheFS Adding Rust Dependency Even Though “Rust doesn’t have a stable ABI” (X, Substack)
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The “Emacs” & “Vim” Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Walls are on track to be full some time tomorrow (Monday) afternoon!
If you want to get your name on one of these, chop chop!
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